Going on a Hog Hunt...with a knife

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Stickin Technique

Once the dogs have the pig by the ears, just slip on in from behind, lift a back leg with the non-master hand (pigs back right leg with your left hand, your right leg slightly forward, blade in your right. Keep that sucker close and stay in control) and drive the blade in behind the shoulder blade. remember that a pigs heart sits low in the chest so point down as you go in. the aim is to make the largest wound channel in the quickest time - pin the heart and it's all over in a minute.

If it all turns to **** - get in close and DON'T LET GO!!! At least not until you are back in control again. remember - A pig cannot bend it's spine like a dog or cat, so therefore if you hang on and stay at the back you won't get hurt, if you let go god help you.
From the shoulders forward they are pure muscle - try to wrestle with that and you will lose. the pigs "achilles heel" is that he cannot bend his spine and therefore is vulnerable to attack from the rear (I can hear the sniggers already - go get stuffed, we didn't film Deliverance). Remember that and you'll
be right.
As for staying in close - ask a farrier where he would want to stand if a horse was about to kick him - I bet he says in close so that there is no momentum in the blow (same as martial artists moving inside blows to gain the advantage and to take the sting out of there opponents attacks).

Send me a pic when you get him

In Oz we have a saying "Any mug (fool) can grab a pig, but it takes a real man to let one go!!"
 
You know... I've jumped out of airplanes, rappelled out of helicopters, raced motorcycles at 150+ mph, ran some of the continent's hairiest whitewater, done a lot of rock climbing and spelunking, stayed outside through a few hurricanes, and even criticized my wife's cooking once (once)
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I'm showing this post to my wife so she knows I'm not the only one out that does stuff like this.:D


HUGE,

Good post and welcome.

HOGs and BLADES rock!!! with the wild boar population growing as rapidly as it is over here we may even get pig-sticking on the agenda too.:)
 
How did I find this site?

Hi again,
Found you guys by accident, punched 'piggin knives' into gogle and your site popped up.
It's saturday over here at the moment - only 3 more sleeps until I get out to mum & dads to chase some porkers again (it's only been 7months!!!!!!!!!!).
Can't wait, my family have a 30,000acre sheep and cattle station (ranch) in north west new south wales. I grew up there and did school of the air (correspondence with a HF radio to talk to your teachers) until it was time to go to boarding school at 12yrs old (man, that next 6yrs was the worst time of my life). Hell up until then I'd spent a week at most inside a classroom, and work always came before school - it was just fitted in around everything else. I landed in Sydney, 800miles from home, not knowing what homework or detentions were. Took me 6 months to figure it out and 6 years to figure out how to do it. All kidding aside one of dads old school mates was the vice principal and a really nice guy. He moved a desk into his office and that was where I did my homework every afternoon before he would let me go back to the boarding house. Between him and Rev. God (short for Godfrey), they straightened me out pretty quick. Old Rev. God was an old bushie from way back so we hit it off pretty well. I'm 31 now and still keep track of those two men - without then I don't reckon I would have made it through school. Kids can be absolute bastards when they think they have found a weak link. Took me 5 1/2years to figure out that they were all bluff, took the biggest bullies best shot, laughed in his face & threw him out a second storey window (the awning on the verandah broke his fall). Thats what happens when you let loose with 5.5yrs of pent up rage at the prick that is the main cause of your misery. After that they didn't know whether to push there luck or not. Being private school boys they were to used to playing follow the leader and running in a pack. (like shooting wild dogs - drop the leader and clean up the rest in the confusion).

Back to the present, Living in sunny Queensland now(Brisbane), because I married a city girl who won't live in the country, have 3 kids b8, b5, g2.5, and the air force doesn't have bases out in the middle of nowhere - not on my aircraft type anyway.

Always funny when your guys come across here and comment on our 'flying museum' - seriously thats what they think my squadron is (caribous), they tend to get a bit embaressed then they realise there mistake. They fly alright for a throwaway aircraft from the vietnam war. You guys pushed them off the sides of aircraft carriers on the way home - typical aussies went "these things go alright - might take a couple home" 40 years later and they are still flying. Only plane thats allowed to have oil leaks, the standard joke is that we take a 4 gallon drum of fuel and a 44 of oil on our trips.
Seriously they are an awesome plane for there role - beat an F-111 to a thousand feet, fly so slow that modern fighters can't get a lock on us, take off or land in the length of a footy field. Thats what we do STOL, short takeoff and landing. No sweat airlines - specialists at getting in where it's hot, wet and tight. Ladies don't take offence - it on our badges. Ever seen some of those strips on resort islands where it just runs from one side to the other?? well in New Guinea (north of oz(just))we have those strips on mountain tops at 10,000 feet( imagine a 10,000' tall mesa!!). Some even have a dogleg in them, just long enough to pull up on - then turn her around, flat biccies down hill and around the bend, drop off the side into space and full stick back and up she goes!! friggin' awesome to experience. That's not bad praise from someone that doesn't even like planes all that much.
Oh yeah, we are also the only developed country in the southern hemisphere to still run a radial piston engined aircraft. 2 engines = 28 cylinders, I would love to strap one of these 2000BHP babies into a chassis and run her across the salt flats - just to see what would happen.

'Till next time - if your not sick of my life story so far,

See you when the whips are cracking
Huge.
 
Never mind the nay-sayers. They're probably the ones that think "hunting" involves a .338 Lapua, a range finder, and a buck that's in another zip code. :neener:

Dangerous game with a knife -- THAT'S hunting! Maybe you should try for Cape Buffalo next!

Seriously, find a copy of "The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon" by Samuel Baker. He was taking elk with dogs and a knife. Felt that shooting them with the new-fangled breechloaders was unsporting.
 
That is the sort of thing you get props for as a Mighty Hunter. The long high-tech, no-risk, bullet-arrives-by-UPS sort, nah.

I like hunting even though I'm lousy at it. I like being around better hunters - might learn something - but one of the least pleasant half hours I've ever spent was with a hunter. He just plain liked to kill things. He'd been all over the world, never killed what he ate, just took trophies and spent an inordinate time talking about the guns and cartridges he used. Common, endangered, male, female it didn't matter. It was the kill and the head that got him excited. Usually from far enough away that the animal couldn't see him.

I guess I should be glad that it was critters he liked to kill, not people :uhoh:
 
Got the sheath - from Kenny Rowe of Hope, Arkansas. Excellent work!

Here it is:

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Held in by Kenny's Pin Lock system (solid as a rock) and built like a tank. Just amazing.


We leave Monday morning!
 
Cool Pendentive! :)

I'm sure gald you posted this I hadn't seen the thread yet, just joined yesterday. :)

You know it wasn't really all that long ago, all a guy had was some dogs and a sharp stick when he went hunting. :) That's all you really need.

Larry Harley invited me to go on a free hog hunt back in the 90's but I was too friggin sick to go so he ok'ed a substitue, my lion and bear huntin buddy. But dangged if he hadn't up and found a woman in the meantime which of course put a stop to all that sort of travelin out of the state kind of fun. :)

It's the dogs! It's all about the dogs. Larry Harley was running Plott hounds. We had several Plott hounds and only one of them was any good for what we needed them for the most "cold trailing" or "stike dog". As far as back-up Harley told me they have a couple shotgunners along just in case things go bad. That's how a guide does things. :) My lion huntin buddy and his ranching family never thought ahead like that, ever, it was always just in a days work. Crazy bunch, no doubt about that. :) You're fixin to step into the same situation I'm talkin about... it's pretty dangged cool. :)

I had the best javelina grabber in the state of Arizona back in the 80's. Not because I'm so good :/ but instead because he was. :) Border terrier named Harry. Nope, nothing ever got a hold of him, I lost him the same way we got 'im, he crawled into someone elses vehicle while in town and they took him. :)

My lion huntin buddy gave Harry to me.
My first and only bear was Harry's 9th bear. :)

Have fun! :)

Alvin in AZ
 
First off for those of you who do hunt with knives, I applaud your tenacity and courage. I like all my limbs attached and if I was hurt doing this my fiance would be more than just a little bit upset. So I have a question for you....

Why bring a knife to a gun fight? :D Just light hearted teasing but I would much rather have 50 ounces of double action Ruger stainless steel ready to dish out 6 full house loads of 300 grains of .44 Mag before I tangled with a hog up close.
 
Dang....I shoulda listened to the guys sayin' that ring in my knife was a hazard....


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NOT!!! :neener: :neener: :cool: :evil: :D

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I got-'er-done....piece-o-cake. Was like cuttin butter. Two quick well-placed pokes and he was a goner.

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A peek at the heart...


in one side...

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out the other...

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The credit, though...goes entirely to the well-trained dogs we had and their competent guide. (fourseasonshunting.com)

Had one heckuva time!
 
COOL! :)

Pendentive, I was wondering if you were dead. ;)

I wasn't kidding about the dogs tho huh?

Some good dogs and a couple guys and some sharp sticks or clubs and there ain't much "men" can't kick butt on out there. :)

Alvin in AZ
 
Great job, now that's hunting! I like the excuses people make cause they're too chicken to give this a try. I'm also too chicken but I suck at making excuses :p .
 
ChickenFried... LOL! :)

But really, it's not all that big of a deal, the dogs do the "hunting" and then do all the dirty work too. :)

How about following in a few javelinas into a mine drift? :)
BTDT a bunch of times and they ran back and forth by me too.
They were way to busy dealing with my Border terrier to give a hoot about me! I never got grabbed inside a mine.

I shot my one and only bear (in the neck) from 4 feet off the muzzel.
She wasn't interested in me, she had my Border terrier and about 8 or 10 coon hounds a couple rhodesian ridgebacks to keep her busy.

A friend of mine grabbed the tail of a femaile mountain lion and dragged her out of the big rocks she was in where the dogs couldn't get her out... so we could chase her somemore (we had almost all "puppies" that day).

No kidding... with some good dogs and one or two guys with sharp sticks there ain't much out there "man" can't kick butt on.

Even more. Picture handling some of those young (and full of themselves) bulls with no dogs, just a coulple guys with ropes and a branding iron and emasculators (or pocket knife) can get the job done and have the "leftovers" for supper.

You are selling yourself short... although in a very humorous way! ;)

Imagine taking on the opposing football team by yourself as opposed to being trained as a team and being just one part. That's the way you are talking. ;)

I'm not a hunter (just a shooter) and I'm not a cowboy, just a dumb railroad signalape but BTSeenT and was able to join-in in no time. Just another man.

Any of us could too, barring physical difficulties.

What Pendentive's got is "BTDT" (and pictures!) is all. ;)

"if it bleeds, we can kill it" -Dutch

Alvin in AZ
 
Watching the video doesn't do much for me...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdQ4DJVTJO0

I went to youtube.com and searched "dog hog" and watched a few of these. Sorry guys, doesn't look much like sport to me. Dogs do the work and guide goes "stick knife HERE". A bit too staged for me.

I was going to say it isn't fair to put the dogs in harms way, but watching a few of these videos it looks like the doggies are having a good time! They finally get to do what they are trained to do.
 
I'm with you, FourTeeFive...it's really not that much work and the dogs do most of it (and they do enjoy it a lot).

But it is a HUGE adrenaline rush...can be quite stressful and exhausting. So, I wouldn't call it basketweaving...but yes, it pales in comparison to the Indian buffalo hunters of yesteryear...:eek:



p.s. most of those videos have hogs that appear to be under 150 lbs. Ours were 250+ and older (read: meaner) and it does make a difference. Some just don't want to go down without a huge fight...
 
45, point taken. :) Cool video too. :)
As far as I'm concerned it makes my point. :)

As a camper, in a tent, with a flashlight and a box full of food and a bear shows up... yeah that can be bad. ;) But a prepared guy or two and a pack of good dogs and that poor ol dumb bear ain't got a chance.

A human as the leader of a pack of "wolves" can kick butt. ;)

This dumb guy and one little dog (Border terrier) killed a javaline with a stick.
Nothing a kid couldn't do as long as he had at least one good dog too.

Before the genetics tests on dogs came out, showing they really are wolves, I was really hoping they'd find our dogs were related to the wild dogs of Africa. Like the dog has been with us all along or something. Maybe they did we just traded them in for new/better ones? ;)

Alvin in AZ
ps- Pendintive, those pictures are really gross, a guy could be eating or something while reading... :/ so from now on, could you like pixilate-out your face? ;)
 
seems a heck of a lot more like hunting than taking an animal from 100 yards away. Great picts and thanks for sharing the info.
 
Handgun hunting wild boar

While we're on the subject, can someone tell me if people hunt boar with handguns WITHOUT using dogs? I personally don't hunt, but have always said that if I did it would be against something that truly is a threat to me. So I've always been curious about using a handgun against a really pissed off creature like a boar. On the other hand, if a boar is charging you I imagine there aren't too many typical "defensive" handguns that can effectively penetrate their skulls.
 
I don't have cable at home. When I go out of town I stay up watching cable at the hotel. Caught a guy on the Versus/OLN channel. Went hog hunting with a knife and dogs for the first time after a bad experience 25 years ago. Looked pretty fun. Guy kinda comes off as bit of a jerk, so it was kinda fun seeing his lame first attempt.

BEST AND WORST OF TRED BARTA (TV-G)
Wild Boar with Knife
 
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